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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.The state of play. The artworld is made up of two types of people. The people who rule it, who are very rich, very smartly dressed and who play golf; and the artists. And anyone who’s ever made any art knows that it’s mostly about playing around. In a very serious way, of course.So Play, an exhibition dedicated to looking at “art as play”, pulls in both these directions. Highlights include Matt Franks’ luminously-coloured giant cartoon-ish toy sculpture; Jock Mooney’s puking comic animals and wreaths of fried eggs, seemingly from the mind of a crazed child; and Doug Fishbone’s narrated film of slides and video clips, which appears to follow the chaos theory of editing – “Muhammad Ali G string bean…” he drones as perplexingly relevant images pop up. However, trying to examine “play” through such faddish work seems to willingly turn a blind eye to the commercialism and materialism of the artworld and its fashions. With a roll call of art’s rising and risen stars, including The Chapmans and Bob and Roberta Smith, Play feels more like the result of current art fashions than the self-conscious idea of “art as play”. Play is at Bearspace, London, until 16 November 07.
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